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Finish my orks.
Study more.
Spend less in Gw.
Save up for lappy.

Not much here.

Family related.
Spend more time with my children (I work way to much)
Same for my Girlfriend.

Health related.
Stop eating so much fast food (again,work related) I'm getting older,and all those runs to Mcdonalds are going to start showing soon.

Games/GW related.
Add a few bitz and such to my Orkz (converted Warboss,and a few other conversions).
Add Forgeworld conversions(on order) to my Death Guard (bringing troops up to 10 sqauds...ridiculous)
Start to phase out GW purchases,barring the release of somthing truely spectacular,I'm limiting my purchases to a max of two a year or a $200 dollar limit,which ever comes first and then only from E-bay or similar outlet.(perspectivly I dropped over $1000 this year,and while I can afford it,I no longer feel the desire to support GW)

1. Change my tipple to brandy (the drink of heroes).

2. Start swimming again.

3. Do enough of 2. that I can avoid going on a diet.

4. Paint at least one of my Flames of War armies so I can start another.

5. Watch all of Tour of Duty and Space above and Beyond from the beginning.

1. Publish more frequently.
2. Enroll in graduate school.
3. Quit this awful, awful job.
4. Raise my standards for intelligence in a partner, and lower my standards for physical beauty in a partner.

Just one this year-Finish the Akronoid cannon. What's that, you ask? You'll see ......

More Motorcycle trips into Italy, Switzerland, Austria and germany.
More time on the bike period.
Mini wise, just paint, get better, spend less or nothing on GW. Start WM.

Loose some weight, need to drop about 6 stone (84lbs) in total - I'll be happy if I can loose half of it this year.

Paint more stuff - I would like to at least get 1000-1500pts of Dark Elves and 1500-2000pts of Orks done this year if possible.

Write - Get my second novel finished, and the first one I'll be willing to try and get published.

Fancomic - try and work with my wife to get a comic strip off the ground, need a way to promote her art.

Cear some debt - Still got about three years to be clear, to stay on target need to clear a credit card and a catalogue this year for about two grand.

dogma wrote:4. Raise my standards for intelligence in a partner, and lower my standards for physical beauty in a partner.

This is a mistake. Remember, you have a girlfriend and then you have real friends.

I suppose it would have been better to phrase it this way:
Start dating, and stop sleeping with random girls.

dogma wrote:Start dating, and stop sleeping with random girls.

At least we know where your cynicism comes from

As long as you're not getting all diseased or getting young ladies pregnant I see no reason to change that behavior at your age. No need to get serious before you're done with college. If you're being a jerk about it, then resolve not to be a jerk. Otherwise, have fun . . . and don't think that the necessary outcome is cynicism. (I use that one because there is no orkmoticon for a bemused pffft.)

Have you guys kept all the 2009 resolutions?
or failed some :'D

Yeah i kept mine sadly.
my original was to gain weight since i never kept them.
but sadly i kept it.

LunaHound wrote:Have you guys kept all the 2009 resolutions?
or failed some :'D

After the tenth year of saying "quit smoking" I gave up on yearly resolutions. Now I have weekly ones. The answer to your question is "no," btw.

1. Resume working out, I haven't gone to the gym for like 20 days.
2. Start eating better. I'm a fine weight and all but still
3. Get into college
4. (Kinda obvious)

Manchu wrote:Otherwise, have fun . . . and don't think that the necessary outcome is cynicism. (I use that one because there is no orkmoticon for a bemused pffft.)

Oh, I was cynical well before I was sexually active, and fun is the motivation for the resolution.

Also, aren't you like two years older than me?

I'm 25. Thought you must be something like 19 or 20, TBH.

I'm 23. I've been done with undergrad for something like a year.

You guys should set tangible goals. If you say study harder, that's fine, but it's very vague. If you set a target grade it's easier to keep the resolution.

Anyways:
1. Increase my blackout limit from 13 to 18 drinks.

2. Shoot for a 4.0 this semester. One class dragged me to a 3.6 this semester because I missed lectures.

3. Don't start any new armies for any systems.

4. Attend every home football game this fall.

dogma wrote:I'm 23. I've been done with undergrad for something like a year.

Well, I still wouldn't advise you to settle down or anything if you're enjoying yourself.

BrookM wrote:Here are mine, some trivial, some serious:

4. Successfully run a small Dark Heresy of Rogue Trader campaign - A big challenge for me, as I've never done this before and seeing as I get nervous quickly while under duress not an easy task for me. But as they say, who dares usually wins one way or the other.

This site can help you a lot with that: www.roleplayingtips.com a bit D&D oriented, but a lot of stuff applies to any RPG.

New years Resolutions of Herohammer:

1. Find a new house/apartment

2. get my singer/songwriter career back on track (it's been a year since my last gig/record)

3. find a new job

4. Get some new cool records.

5. save for a new laptop

LunaHound wrote:Have you guys kept all the 2009 resolutions?
or failed some :'D

I pretty much failed all of my 2009 ones.

Such as get a job, get better grades etc. etc. Typical bs resolutions.

This is my new resolution for 2010:

Nevermind. Heh. Funny link though. Sorry.

I cant think of anything major.. im very happy with my lot in life.

Maybe get back up to 25 chin ups.. although, i had no booze for 6 months due to being in Iraq when i got that high so it may well be unreachable..

Oh there is one, try to drink a bit less, although, i only binge drink 3 or 4 times a month so.. im probably not actually that bad with that either.

Ok i cant think of one. Good luck the rest of you.

Failed 09:
100 miles in <= 5 hours.
Succeeded 09:
Cycle the alps.
Upgrade to Cat 4.
Play 1 game of 40K

New resolutions:
> "Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us togethew today. "
> Improve swim times / distance to be competitive in age class.
> Run.
> 100 Miles in <= 5 Hours
> Top 10 in ToWC. Road Race.

skipmcne wrote:
> 100 Miles in <= 5 Hours

You're gonna fail this one a lot. That's a 3 minute mile. World class marathon runners can't maintain that pace over 26 miles, let alone 100. In fact, I'm pretty sure no one's ever run a sub-3 minute mile in anything.

I don't really do resolutions, but I do have some aims/goals for the year:

1) Get my novel published. Finally finished it, this month, after the best part of a decade. I've sent it off to a couple of agents, but am fully expecting to have to re-work it and/or send it off to at least 50 more agents before one of them will take it on.

2) Get to blue belt (2nd Kyu) in judo. I could potentially get to brown belt (1st kyu) this year, but there's a stack of stuff to learn, so I'm trying to be realistic & aim for blue.

3) Get resting heart rate below 50 by the end of Feb, through some long slow distance training.

4) Get deadlift to 2.5 x bodyweight.

5) Paint my stuff. Specifically, I want a small but viable tyranid army (all I have right now is a bunch of unpainted Stealers from Space Hulk sets) painted to a good standard by the end of Feb... and I want to finish painting my entire DA army by the end of the year.

6) Start & finish Secret Money-Making Plan X (it's viable, it's just going to be quite a bit of work).

dogma wrote:

skipmcne wrote:
> 100 Miles in <= 5 Hours

You're gonna fail this one a lot. That's a 3 minute mile. World class marathon runners can't maintain that pace over 26 miles, let alone 100. In fact, I'm pretty sure no one's ever run a sub-3 minute mile in anything.

I ride bicycles; I ride bicycles a lot. I'm close.

Ah, I associated that with running.

lol. You shoulda mentioned to Dog you meant on your bike mate.